LinkFacebookDate Created27th May 2018CommentsRon Hibbs I can remember that a carriage was connected to the freight train from Hokitika to Ross, this would have been late 50’s to the early 60’s
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Eddie Parsons
Eddie Parsons Hey Haggis ,my grandfather was one of those train drivers back then Charlie Garforth
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Peter Shirley Weaver
Peter Shirley Weaver It passed Karoro school at play time (wasn’t recess then) - we would line up at the fence to watch so it must have been still in use until sometime after 1965.
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June Williams
June Williams I remember the train stopping by the Hokitika swimming pool. It was just the right height for the driver to see into the pool. He would wait till someone was about to dive in and sound the whistle. I did many a belly flop. That was in the early 60s.
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Marilyn Paterson
Marilyn Paterson They used to stop near the crossing to fill up the water tank.
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June Williams
June Williams That's right but I bet they enjoyed giving us a fright.
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Garry Woods
Garry Woods My father Bill Woods was the Guard back in '56/57 as a 7 year old I would help throw the newspapers out the side door of the Guards Van to land at the gate of farms as we rocketed past.
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Rod Berry
Rod Berry The days of rail had the monopoly of trasporting frieght. Note the livestock wagons full of sheep/lambs consign usually to the freezing works. At weekends, i went by train to Ross from Grey Tech. All memories now.
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Phil Millar
Phil Millar Yep i used to stand on the fence of our Railway House at Ruataupu and wave to the crew 1950,my dad was the Ganger on that length,Hokitika to Ross!
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Robert Wilson
Robert Wilson phil i can remember the rail houses,,peter king with the pigs,the church across the road, i went to school there,,were you there long enough to remember bob wilson,,dinny murphy was in a railway house,,i use to go though the football fied to the lake,,i still shoot the lake,,,,
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Phil Millar
Phil Millar Robert Wilson yep ican remeber the Kings pig farm,Hudsons had the store,i started school there,
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Robert Wilson
Robert Wilson i layed on the ruatapu sawdust race that went over the railway line,and tryed to drop a ball of saw dust down the funnell the guys seen me and opened the steam up ,,i got covered in smoke,and hot ash,,,never tryed that again,,
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Dianne Smith
Dianne Smith those were the days
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Phil Millar
Phil Millar Sandy Seabourne was the driver and i think Jock Day was the fireman.
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Lynda Boden
Lynda Boden What year would that be
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Phil Millar
Phil Millar 1950-1955!
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Brett McLean
Brett McLean 1969 Lynda Boden
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Ken Tomlinson
Ken Tomlinson We loaded about a thousand ewes out through a temporary loading race at Mananui about 1970.& enginedriver, fireman & guard jump over fence & go mushrooming in paddocks.
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Robert Wilson
Robert Wilson they were great days i was down setting opossum traps,or shooting..on the ross line often they would slow and pick me up that stove in the guards van was fantastic i can still smell the steam mixed with oil and grease and gear compound,,lost times,,
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Lynnette Beirne
Lynnette Beirne I used to walk along the line at Mananui opposite my grandparents farm with a bucket and pick up the coal that was along the track from when they were stoking the engine and the excess came out of the cab
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June Williams
June Williams My dad told a story about a lady years ago who used to walk from Mananui to Hokitika along the railway line. One day the train stopped and asked her if she wanted a ride. Her reply was no thanks I'm in a hurry.
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Phil Millar
Phil Millar June that could have been my Nana Provis when she stayed with us at Ruatapu,she would often walk along the railway line to Ross or head to Hokitika for a walk.Often my dad would take me on the old push/pull jigger to find her around dinner time,she could walk for miles

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June Williams
June Williams It was actually Mrs Dempsey I think. It was many years ago. I guess that was the most direct way to town.
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Robert Wilson
Robert Wilson yep i started school at ruatapu,,crissy murphy was school teacher we live in the big old house beside the office were john loony lived,,when muphys left we went into there house and that were mum and dad lived till they died i got married and went to town,,paddy muphy drove the bush loco and took me out in the holiday,,
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West Coast New Zealand History (2nd Jun 2018). Ross to Greymouth daily freight train. In Website West Coast New Zealand History. Retrieved 22nd Mar 2019 06:33, from https://westcoast.recollect.co.nz/nodes/view/23385